How Do You Make Coconut Bread?

Coconut bread is made from flour, coconut, baking powder, eggs, butter, sugar and milk. The recipe produces a sweet loaf that has a flavor similar to cake.

Coconut Bread Recipe

This recipe was originally published in "Taste of Home" magazine. It produces around 16 slices of coconut bread.

Prep time: 15 minutes

Cook time: 1 hour

Ready in: 1 hour and 15 minutes

Ingredients:

1 cup sugar

1/2 cup butter

2 eggs

1 teaspoon vanilla

2 cups flour

2 teaspoons baking powder

1/2 teaspoon salt

3/4 cup milk

1 1/4 cup dried coconut flakes

Prepare the oven and loaf pan

Turn on the oven to 350 F. Grease a 9x5 loaf pan and set it aside.

Make a sugar mixture

Cream the butter and sugar together in a large mixing bowl with an electric mixer. Beat in each of the eggs separately. Add the vanilla to the mixture.

Mix the dry ingredients

In a separate mixing bowl, blend the flour, baking powder and salt together.

Add the dry ingredients to the sugar mixture

Gradually beat the dry ingredients and milk into the sugar mixture. Alternate small amounts of each until the full amount is blended in to form a batter.

Add the coconut

Stir the coconut into the batter.

Bake the loaf

Add the batter to the prepared loaf pan. Bake the loaf for 1 hour. Remove the coconut bread from the oven when a toothpick inserted into the center of the loaf comes out clean. Let the loaf cool before removing it from the pan and slicing.